Lilley angry over Logie fail

Karl Quinn

CHRIS Lilley was an angry boy yesterday, taking to Facebook to express his disappointment at the ABC's failure to submit his 12-part dramedy series Angry Boys for the publicly voted section of the Logies.

Lilley later issued a brief statement in which he said the failure was ''extremely disappointing for everyone who worked on Angry Boys and for all the fans who were hoping to vote''. An embarrassed ABC issued a statement of its own in which it was forced to concede that the omission was ''a result of an administrative oversight by ABC TV''. Lilley now appears to be one of the few actors on Australian TV not up for the Silver Logie; voters can choose from 90 eligible actors (and 65 actresses).

The ABC said it intended to submit Lilley and the show for the peer-voted ''most outstanding'' categories in January.